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Mammon and the Archer Further Reading

Blansfield, Karen Charmaine, Cheap Rooms and Restless Hearts: A Study of Formula in the Urban Tales of William Sydney Porter, Popular Press, 1988.

This book explores the characters and plot patterns found in O. Henry's urban tales and offers a new evaluation of O. Henry's literary merit and contributions.

Bloom, Harold, ed., O. Henry, Bloom's Major Short Story Writers series, Chelsea House, 1999.

Bloom, a noted literary critic, collects a variety of criticism on O. Henry from others. In addition, the book features a biography of O. Henry, themes and characters from selected O. Henry stories, a bibliography of O. Henry's writings, and notes and an introduction by Bloom.

Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Oxford University Press, 2000.

This early history of New York is the most comprehensive study thus far. Burrows and Wallace combine...
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